LUNAR ECLIPSE AND BACK TO MY PRIVATE GAME PARK.

 I kept checking the weather forecast for the time of the eclipse and it didn't look good.  Cloudy conditions were predicted the whole evening and night.  I had a bath and was headed to bed and decided to take one last look out the door and surprise, the sky had cleared.  So I pulled on some warm clothes and set up my camera with the 800 mm lens on the tripod out on the porch.  My low budget gear didn't give a stellar result but I didn't think it did too badly.  The rest of the photos were taken this morning on our walk and drive.

Lunar eclipse.

Yellow-bellied Marmot.

I didn't see these Red-tailed Hawks until I looked through my 800 mm lens.  It was so far away I thought the tree might have been a sheep.

Female Western Bluebird.

Male Western Bluebird.

Western Bluebird pair.  The female wasn't sharing her meal and flew off to eat in peace.

Female Western Bluebird.

Female Western Bluebird.

Chipmunk.

A minutes old calf.  He got up and was wobbling around then all of a sudden he started jumping around.  So glad to enter the outside world!

It didn't take long for it to tire out.

Mountain Bluebirds are a different colour than the Western.

Mountain Bluebird.